Spring football practice started a little later this year at Alabama.
Nick Saban’s adverse reactions to questions did not.
Saban seemed in October form Tuesday evening when asked in a news conference about moving recently to more of a ball-controlled offense after losing 35-31 to Clemson in January’s national-title game. The Tigers had a 9-minute, 28-second advantage in possession time over the Crimson Tide.
“Where does that assumption come from?” Saban asked the reporter. “Do you do what everybody else in the media does and just throw some (expletive) on the wall and see what sticks? It’s what I see happening everywhere, and people who scream the loudest get the attention. We’re going to be more conservative now with a ball-controlled offense? Where did that come from?
“I never said that, and nobody in this building ever said that. If we had caught some passes in the national championship game when we had guys open, we wouldn’t have had to control the ball, because we would have scored more touchdowns.”